TY - JOUR
T1 - Democratizing rural economy
T2 - Institutional friction, sustainable struggle and the cooperative movement
AU - Mooney, Patrick H.
PY - 2004/3
Y1 - 2004/3
N2 - Sustainable development demands institutions manage the conflicts and struggles that inevitably arise over material and ideal interests. While current cooperative theory privileges the economic element, a political economy of cooperation emphasizes cooperatives tentative bridging of economic and political spheres with a democratic ethos. The cooperatives democratic political structure exists in tension with a capitalist economic structure and other sites of friction. These contradictions are: in the realm of social relations, between production and consumption; in the realm of spatial relations, between the local and the global; and in the realm of collective action, between cooperatives as both traditional as well as new social movements. Where neo-classical economic models seek to eliminate or reduce these tensions, political economy views these tensions as functional to sustainability by creating an "institutional friction", that facilitates innovation, flexibility and long-term adaptability. This-political economy of cooperation is intended as a step toward the development of a multidimensional sociology of cooperation.
AB - Sustainable development demands institutions manage the conflicts and struggles that inevitably arise over material and ideal interests. While current cooperative theory privileges the economic element, a political economy of cooperation emphasizes cooperatives tentative bridging of economic and political spheres with a democratic ethos. The cooperatives democratic political structure exists in tension with a capitalist economic structure and other sites of friction. These contradictions are: in the realm of social relations, between production and consumption; in the realm of spatial relations, between the local and the global; and in the realm of collective action, between cooperatives as both traditional as well as new social movements. Where neo-classical economic models seek to eliminate or reduce these tensions, political economy views these tensions as functional to sustainability by creating an "institutional friction", that facilitates innovation, flexibility and long-term adaptability. This-political economy of cooperation is intended as a step toward the development of a multidimensional sociology of cooperation.
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U2 - 10.1526/003601104322919919
DO - 10.1526/003601104322919919
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:1842659012
SN - 0036-0112
VL - 69
SP - 76
EP - 98
JO - Rural Sociology
JF - Rural Sociology
IS - 1
ER -